S.T. Georgiou is an educator and writer. He lectures at San Francisco City College, San Francisco State University, and at the Center For Arts, Religion, and Education (C.A.R.E.) at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. Steve's areas of teaching and study include the Interdisciplinary Humanities, Comparative Religion, Iconography, Thomas Merton and Robert Lax Studies, Desert Monasticism, and Spirituality and Healing.

Steve Georgiou holds an M.A. in the Humanities (San Francisco State University), an M.A. in Theology (Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley), and a Ph.D. in Religion and Art (GTU, Berkeley). He is the author of The Last Transfiguration: The Quest for Spiritual Illumination in the Life of St. Augustine(Phanes, 1995), The Way of the Dreamcatcher: Spirit-Lessons With Robert Lax (Novalis, 2003; Herder-Spektrum, 2006; Templegate Publishers, 2010), and Mystic Street: Meditations On A Spiritual Path (Novalis, 2007). His most recent book is The Isle of Monte Cristo: Finding the Inner Treasure (Novalis, 2010) which received a 2011 Catholic Press Association Award. For a recent review, see The Southern Cross.